Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973 : Egypt specimens (4934 to 5479), 1968

by: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey

Publication date: 1968

Topics: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, Egypt, Ornithology, Bird banding, Birds--Egypt, Birds--Migration, Birds--Parasites

Collection: biodiversity; sifieldbooks

Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Field Book Project

Contributor: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Language: English; la

Field book (divided in two folders for conservation purposes) of forms for field notes that are survey records on migratory birds specimens collected in Egypt for the Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey. From the finding aid (SIA RU000435): "The Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey (PMS), a survey of migratory birds, their ectoparasites and the viruses they carry, was conducted in the eastern Mediterranean from 1966 to 1971. The primary PMS operation site was in northern Egypt. Surveys were also conducted in Cyprus and Israel. The PMS involved scientists of the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Naval Medical Research Unit, and Yale University, and was funded by the Army Research Office, the Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program, and the Smithsonian Research Foundation. George E. Watson, Chairman, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, and Curator, Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, was Principal Investigator". Surveys were also conducted in Uganda. The forms show the name of the bird species, the band number, the date and locality of capture and release, and data on sex as gathered from dissection, plumage, soft parts or other methods, on age and method of its finding (skull, plumage, soft parts, etc.), on weight, fat, molt, way of disposition (skin, skeleton, alcoholic, discarded, etc.), presence of parasites, blood tests, and additional remarks. The forms are numbered 4934 to 5749 and dated from September 6 to 16, 1968

Abstract: Field book (divided in two folders for conservation purposes) of forms for field notes that are survey records on migratory birds specimens collected in Egypt for the Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey. From the finding aid (SIA RU000435): 'The Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey (PMS), a survey of migratory birds, their ectoparasites and the viruses they carry, was conducted in the eastern Mediterranean from 1966 to 1971. The primary PMS operation site was in northern Egypt. Surveys were also conducted in Cyprus and Israel. The PMS involved scientists of the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Naval Medical Research Unit, and Yale University, and was funded by the Army Research Office, the Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program, and the Smithsonian Research Foundation. George E. Watson, Chairman, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, and Curator, Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, was Principal Investigator'. Surveys were also conducted in Uganda. The forms show the name of the bird species, the band number, the date and locality of capture and release, and data on sex as gathered from dissection, plumage, soft parts or other methods, on age and method of its finding (skull, plumage, soft parts, etc.), on weight, fat, molt, way of disposition (skin, skeleton, alcoholic, discarded, etc.), presence of parasites, blood tests, and additional remarks. The forms are numbered 4934 to 5749 and dated from September 6 to 16, 1968.